Strathroy Cenotaph | Municipality of Strathroy-Caradoc Museum

Below are the names of all the people named on the Strathroy Cenotaph who made the ultimate sacrifice serving their country in overseas wars. Each name is a link to biographical information about that person.

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World War I

Last Names A-B

Abbott, James, Private, 528517
Adair, William Frederick, Private, 802848
Armstrong, James Harvey, Private, 803226
Beer, Walter Treleaven, Private, 802735
Bennett, Charles Reginald, Private, 2334303
Briscoe, Ross Dickenson, Lieutenant
Brown, John, Corporal, 54333
Brown, Robert Walker, Private, 474099
Buchanan, Reginald James, Sergeant, 53440
Burtenshaw, John Ernest, Private, 802521

Last Names C-K

Cooper, Wilfred James, Acting Sergeant
Cowan, William Samuel, Private, 802722
Cuddy, Wilson William, Lieutenant, 7112
Davis, Robert Oscar, Private, 803205
Dewar, Hughie, Corporal, 802086
Foxen, William E., Lieutenant, 18411
Gough, William Henry, Corporal, 802938
Holderness, Arthur, Private, 6568
James, Howard, Private, 802031
Jay, Frederick William, Captain
Kellestine, James Warren, Private, 802040
Kemp, Sydney 'Sam' Frank, Lieutenant, 452604

Last Names L-M

Leaden, Ernest Ivon, Private, 123107
Lindsay, Arthur Lodge, Lieutenant
Lowe, Cyril, Private, 823791
MacAuley, James Wilson, Sapper, 503035
Main, George, Lance Corporal, 124141
McGeary, James Neil, Private, 802395
McIntyre, Stormont, Sapper, 500805
McLean, Neil C., Lance Sergeant, 790232
Milliken, Thomas Whyte, Private, 802200
Moore, Edward T., Sergeant, 802016

Last Names N-P

Nettleton, Alice
Newbury, Arnold Oliver William, Private 123196
Newton, Alexander Stuart, Private 802115
Newton, Ralph, Acting Corporal 802237
Norman, Thomas Edgar, Private 3134500
Nunn, John, Sergeant 6587
O'Dell, William Oscar, Corporal 6531
Patterson, Asa John, Private 802074
Payne, Joseph Harold, Acting Sergeant 3209040
Pembleton, Henry Leonard, Private 126948
Perring, Charles, Private 802719

Last Names R-W

Reardon, Eugene A., Private
Robinson, Frederick 'Fritz' Wilfred, Captain
Sexton, Edgar Zephania, 2nd Lieutenant
Small, Andrew Gordon, Private, 796679
Smithrim, Charles Henry, Private, 688295
Sullivan, Wilfred Vernon 'Verne', Private, 803200
Urquhart, George Robert Alexander, Sapper, 803167
Wallace, George Edward, Private, 189996
Welch, Thomas Baird, Lieutenant-Colonel
Wiese, Harold John, Private, 802732

World War II

Last Names A-G

Adair, Charles Franklin, Air General, R221011
Adair, Kenneth Alexander, Private, A-22993
Adair, Robert James, Corporal, A-21239
Arthur, Albert 'Ab' Edgar, Sergeant, A-34889
Barker, Charles William, Lance Sergeant, A-19176
Campbell, Allan William, Flying Officer, J-36786
Ferguson, William 'Bill' Kennedy, Pilot Officer, J-85171
Gerry, Russell 'Russ' Frederick, Trooper A-107104

Last Names H-T

Hall, Richard Maxwell, Private, A-49624
Holliday, Edmund 'Ted' John, Private, A-3178
Leitch, Donald 'Don' McLellan, Sergeant, R-78887
Lovell, John 'Jack' Franklin, Corporal, A-21790
McDonald, John 'Jack' Thompson, Flight Sergeant, R-90083
Payne, Arden Leroy, Private, A-108608
Pike, Lawrence Ellwin, Flying Officer, J-40651
Swales, Stewart Leroy 'Chip', Steward, V-17781
Thomson, Donald 'Tuffy' Andrew, Warrant Officer Class 2, R-99722

James Abbott

Service Number: 528517

Rank: Private

Branch: Number 2 and 3 Field Artillery Depot

Years Served: 1917 - 1919

Summary: 22 year old student at Strathroy attested at Number 2 Field Artillery Depot on the 19th Jan 1916 at London Ontario. He served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps at the CAMC Hospital at Havre France where he became ill and was invalided to England with appendicitis. He was returned to Canada were he died on the 26 May 1922 at the Byron Sanitarium. He is buried in Strathroy Cemetery.